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Re: smiley regexp problem
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: smiley regexp problem |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:48:40 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Rajsekar <address@hidden> writes:
> Rajsekar <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I want to setup the smileys similar to gaim.
>> So I put
>>
>> "\\(:)\\)\\W" for smile.
>> and
>> "\\(:))\\)\\W" for laugh.
>>
>> The problem is that :)) also contains a :). At the same time, i do not
>> want to replace \W with something like [^)] because i lose the advantage of
>> \W (which works based on the current syntax). I want something like \\W
>> minus the character `('. Can someone tell me how to achieve this?
>
> I see from theory that the needed language is still a regexp, yet i
> am not able to express it in the language of regexp. Is it a
> shortcoming in the language?
Why don't you match "laugh" first, and only look for a smile if no
laugh is can be found?
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